Glasgow loves cinema and offers a wide selection of entertainment to film goers and movie buffs alike. You can see all the latest big releases or catch an art house movie, participate in film quiz nights and enjoy special screenings.The Blue Room , GFT Friday 23 – Sunday 25 September 2016
Noir thriller at its most taut and engaging. Friday 23 – Sunday 25 September Running time: 1h16m Mattieu Amalric directs this erotic French thriller that shares a heavy debt to New Wave crime director Claude Chabrol. Amalric also stars as Julien Gahyde, who is introduced being questioned by the police for unknown reasons, before the […]
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Friday, September 23, 2016 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Movie Memories, Dementia Friendly Cinema, Glasgow Film Theatre
Glasgow Film Theatre encourages community engagement in Movie Memories Event On Friday 16 September, to help celebrate Queens Cross Housing Association’s 40th Anniversary, GFT held a Movie Memories Event at Dundasvale Residents Hall as part of a new relationship with the Dundasvale Community Involvement Group encouraging Dementia Friendly film events. GFT’s Public Engagement Co-ordinator Jodie […]
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Tuesday, September 20, 2016 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Take One Action Film Festival 2016 GFT
Take One Action Film Festival 2016 16 – 24 September, 2016. A Good American (15) Before Edward Snowden, there was Bill Binney… Friday 16 September (17.40) Buy tickets When Two Worlds Collide (N/C 15+) Sundance award-winning documentary charting the struggle of native territories in Peru.. Buy tickets Shadow World (N/C 15+) Wed, Sep 21 Stirring […]
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Friday, September 16, 2016 | Filed under: Cinema, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Screening: Sleaford Mods Invisible Britain at Govanhill Baths Saturday 17 September, 2016
Govanhill Baths Community Trust presents a screening + Q&A of Sleaford Mods – Invisible Britain, which shows the most relevant and uncompromising British band in years sticking two fingers up to the zeitgeist and articulating the rage and desperation of those without a voice in austerity Britain. The film follows Sleaford Mods on a tour […]
Hooligan Sparrow Sun 18 September 2016 CCA
Hooligan Sparrow CCA Sun 18 September 2016 7pm, £6 (£4.50), Cinema 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events Take One Action Film Festival Thu 15 September — Sun 25 September 2016 Dir. Nanfu Wang, China USA, 2016, 84mins Brave, daring exposé of human rights abuses and governmental intimidation in China. Director Nanfu […]
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10 Billion: What’s on your Plate? Saturday 17 September, 2016.
Sat 17 September 2016 7pm, £6 (£4.50), Cinema 12+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events Take One Action Film Festival Thu 15 September — Sun 25 September 2016 Dir. Valentin Thurn, Germany, 2015, 102mins With the world population expected to reach 10 billion by 2050, how will the world feed itself? Amidst […]
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Shadow World + Q&A (N/C 15+) GFT Wednesday 21 September
Stirring documentary exposing the global arms trade Wednesday 21 September (17.50) Running time: 1h33m This visually dazzling exploration of the global arms trade exists at the crossroads where art, documentary, history and politics intersect. In exposing how the business of war has fostered corruption, dictated economic and foreign policies and undermined our democratic institutions, Shadow […]
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Videodrome, GFT Sunday 18 September, 2016
‘Long live the new flesh!’ Sunday 18 September (20.00) Running time: 1h27m As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn (James Woods) is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon “Videodrome”, a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts it on […]
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Take One Action Film Festival At Home in the World CCA Mon 19 September 201
7pm, £6 (£4.50), Cinema 12+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Take One Action Film Festival Thu 15 September — Sun 25 September 2016 Original Title: Et hjem i verden Dir. Andreas Koefoed, Denmark, 2015, 58min An intimate and poignant look at a school for refugee children in Denmark. Shot over the course of a […]
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Sour Grapes, GFT 19 and 20 September, 2016
GFT Documenting how one man was able to bamboozle the world’s wine elite. Mon 19 (18.00) & Tue 20 Sep (20.55) Running time: 1h25m A humorous and suspenseful documentary about an ingenious con set within the world of fine and rare wine auction markets. An unassuming young man, Rudy Kurniawan, was considered a wine savant […]
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Glasgow Film Theatre: Contemporary Cinema Course 2016 at CCA September/October
Glasgow Film Theatre: Contemporary Cinema Course Mon 19 September 2016 6.30pm, £65 (£55) for full course, Clubroom 18+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events Glasgow Film Theatre: Contemporary Cinema Course Mon 5 September 2016 Glasgow Film Theatre: Contemporary Cinema Course Mon 3 October 2016 An ideal beginner’s course for those wishing to […]
The Clan, 16 – 22 September, 2016 GFT
A disturbing and intense crime drama from Carancho director. Friday 16 – Thursday 22 September Running time: 1h48m The latest film from the director of Carancho and White Elephant is based on a chilling true story from the early 1980s. The magnificent Guillermo Francella stars as Arquímedes Puccio, the dead-eyed patriarch of a seemingly unremarkable […]
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Hunt for the Wilder People, GFT, 16 – 22 September, 2016.
Sam Neill stars in this off-beat, rousing adventure film. Friday 16 – Thursday 22 September Running time: 1h41m Raised on hip-hop and in and out of foster homes, rebellious city kid Ricky (newcomer Julian Dennison) gets a fresh start in the New Zealand countryside. When a tragedy strikes that threatens to ship Ricky to another […]
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NT Live: No Man’s Land Thursday 15 December, 2016
Following their hit run on Broadway, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart return to the West End stage in Harold Pinter’s iconic play. Thursday 15 December (18.45) Running time: approx. 3h GFT Following their hit run on Broadway, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart return to the West End stage in Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land, broadcast […]
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Thursday, September 15, 2016 | Filed under: Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival 2014, Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Take One Action Film Festival 2016, 14 – 25 September, 2016
Twelve days of inspiring films and captivating conversations. This year’s programme features more than 40 films from 20 countries, over 50% of which have been directed or co-directed by women. It shines a light on a diversity of experiences that are testament to the role we can all play in shaping our world for the […]
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All About Almodóvar, GFT 28 August 6 September, 2016
All About Almodóvar 28 August – 6 September, 2016 Dark Habits (15) Almodóvar’s delightfully dark and kitschy melodrama. Sunday 28 August (14.30) Running time: 1h54m Next event Sun, Aug 28 14:30 GFT 2 Order tickets What Have I Done to Deserve This? (18) Almodóvar’a homage to Italian neorealism. Tuesday 30 August (20.15) Running time: 1h37m […]
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Monday, September 12, 2016 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Matchbox Cineclub Pura Sangre Thu 15 September 2016 CCA
7pm, £5 + £1 booking fee, Cinema 18+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events Analogue Film Scotland Out of Print (35mm) + Director Q&A Wed 14 September 2016 Matchbox Cineclub’s monthly residency continues with Luis Ospina’s rarely screened cult Tropical Gothic horror from 1980. An old, bedridden sugar tycoon who communicates with […]
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Thursday, September 8, 2016 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
The Man Who Fell To Earth, GFT 9 September, 2016
David Bowie stars in Nicolas Roeg’s classic film. Friday 9 (23.00), Sat 10 (14.30) & Sun 11 Sep (16.20) Running time: 2h19m Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie) is a humanoid alien that crash lands on earth seeking water for his dying planet. He uses his superior intelligence to acquire the wealth needed to save his […]
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Gary Numan: Android in La la Land GFT Sunday 11 September, 2016
Following Gary Numan’s career as one of the biggest-selling artists in the 1970s. Sunday 11 September (19.30) Running time: 1h25m In the 1970s Gary Numan was one of the world’s biggest-selling artists with a sound that had never been heard before. However, the same thing that fuelled his ambition, informed his music and dictated his […]
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CinemaAttic: Spanish and Latin American Short Film Night CCA 9 September, 2016
Fri 9 September 2016 7.30pm, £5 (£4 students) + £1 booking fee, Cinema 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Spanish and Latin American Short Film Nights offer a powerful curated selection of short films, all with English subtitles, as well as networking breaks for the enjoyment of both the Ibero-American community and cinema lovers […]
Bobby Sands: 66 Days GFT
Bobby Sands: 66 Days (15) A rare insight into the iconic Irish political figure, Bobby Sands. Monday 29 August – Saturday 3 September (Mon 29 and Sat 3 both sold out) Running time: 1h45m In the Spring of 1981 the relentless cycle of violence in Northern Ireland took a profound turn inside the infamous Maze […]
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Friday, September 2, 2016 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
CinemaAttic: Spanish and Latin American Short Film Night, CCA Fri 9 September 2016
7.30pm, £5 (£4 students) + £1 booking fee, Cinema 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Spanish and Latin American Short Film Nights offer a powerful curated selection of short films, all with English subtitles, as well as networking breaks for the enjoyment of both the Ibero-American community and cinema lovers alike. This September CinemaAttic […]
LUX Scotland Presents: Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years, plus shorts 4 September GFT
This programme of experimental films celebrates subversive action. Sunday 4 September (19.15) Running time: 2h15m Dagmar Schulz’s feature- length portrait of Audre Lorde shows the African-American poet galvanising the Afro-German movement and anti-racist feminism. The documentary shows an alternate history of 1980s West German and North Atlantic social movements, rearranging the legacy of feminist filmmaker […]
Joan Grossman Drop City Film Screening, CCA Wed 7 September, 2016 2016
Wed 7 September 2016 6pm, Free but ticketed, Cinema All ages Book online / 0141 352 4900 Intentions in Action: Second Stop Thu 1 September — Mon 31 October 2016 In 1962, Gene Bernofsky, Jo Ann Bernofsky and Clark Richert developed a concept they called Drop Art, making art a spontaneous part of everyday life […]
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Julieta GFT 26 August – 8 September, 2016
Julieta GFT Pedro Almodóvar returns to his great subject, the emotional terrain and interior lives of women. Friday 26 August – Thursday 8 September Running time: 1h39m Pedro Almodóvar forgoes the energetic bravura of his last release; I’m So Excited! and returns to his great subject, the emotional terrain and interior lives of women. Based […]
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Sunder Cinema presents Valley Girl. CCA Saturday 3 September, 2016
Sunder Cinema Presents Valley Girl Sat 3 September 2016 7pm, £5 + £1 booking fee, Cinema 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events Rotten Kiwis Sleeping Dogs with Smash Palace Mon 5 September 2016 Analogue Film Scotland Out of Print (35mm) Wed 14 September 2016 Matchbox Cineclub Pura Sangre Thu 15 September […]
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Rotten Kiwis Sleeping Dogs with Smash Palace CCA Mon 5 September 2016
6.45pm, £4 + £1 booking fee, Cinema 15+ Book online / 0141 352 4900 Related CCA Events Sunder Cinema Presents Valley Girl Sat 3 September 2016 Analogue Film Scotland Out of Print (35mm) Wed 14 September 2016 Matchbox Cineclub Pura Sangre Thu 15 September 2016 In the late 1970s, New Zealand filmmaking entered the international […]
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Mary Irvine’s Blog: The Most Dramatic Shot In The History Of Cinema
Mary Barton – Brief Encounter Many older people will remember the film’ Brief Encounter’ starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson. But do you remember the young girl who served them tea in the station waiting room? Beryl. In real life the actress Margaret Barton, 90 this year and the last surviving member of the cast. […]
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Law of Desire, GFT 4 September, 2016
A complex love triangle in the Spanish film industry. Sunday 4 September (17.15) Running time: 1h42m Considered to be Almodóvar’s first gay film, Law of Desire focuses on a complex love triangle between three men involved in the Spanish film industry, and a parallel story of a struggling transsexual actor who finds herself caring for […]
Things To Come GFT 2 – 8 September, 2016
Isabelle Huppert stars alongside Eden’s Roman Kolinka in this touching film. Friday 2 – Thursday 8 September Running time: 1h42m Mia Hansen-Løve’s follow up to the critically acclaimed Eden is a stunning portrait of a woman searching through doubt, insecurity and grief to find herself in an ever-changing world. Isabelle Huppert (White Material, Amour) stars […]
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